Over a year ago we took my wife's L400 into the will to replace an alternator. 6 months ago daughter was driving it and said the power steering went so she didn't want to drive it. I popped the hood and see what you see in my pictures.
Only issues is we had that fixed, and the pictures here are from last night. Wife said power steering went and she thought the loose belt at the top was the issue. I looked in lower and saw the broken harmonic balancer bolt and pulley there, and washer.
Question, does this happen often? How can we prevent this from going on again? We never had this issue until that first alternator fix. The mechanic that fixed the balancer said that the only way that bolt breaks is someone messing with it. We figured the last shop did something to the balancer trying to replace the alternator.
We love this van and I personally was happy to have the wife and kids in a safe 4x4 this winter.
Thank you to anyone with answers or for just looking.
